My opinion is largely divided on Odd Future; there’s no doubt they’re talented but the style seems to only work half the time for me. When it does click however, it’s straight dope and Earl Sweatshirt’s new track Whoa is definitely one of those times. There’s something about Earl Sweatshirt’s flow that’s just unbelievable; it’s [...]
Photos play a large part of life here at Broken Culture, and in the music and graffiti scenes in general, allowing people to get up worldwide with flicks circling the internet like wildfire. There’s little better then the atmosphere a decent photograph can create, so our new feature ‘Behind the Glass’ looks at some of [...]
Ex Ninja-Tune jazz hip hop band The Herbaliser are coming back soon with a new album, There Were Seven. Ahead of this, they’ve just released a delightfully dusty single featuring the vocal talents of London based lyricist Hanna Clive. Over cinematic strings that float around a jazzy drum break and melancholic saxes and scratches that [...]
Durkle Disco have just released a debut album from Se Fire, a five track crew featuring Sosé on production and lyrics, where he bounces rhymes back and forward with Mistafire, DJ Snafu on Cuts, Jamileh Lee on vocals and Ollie Weeks engineering. Created between 2001 and 2009 and dug from the Bristol Hip Hop crates, [...]
Questlove is a producer who should need no introduction to the Hip Hop heads. As part of the Roots, he’s released eleven albums, four of which won Grammy awards, as well as producing for a massive range of other artists over the past few decades. Alongside him for this Soundcrash date that should prove unforgettable [...]
LA Rapper Intuition‘s go to beat maker, Equalibrum, doesn’t only drop monsters alongside his rap counterpart, providing the majority of beats for Intuition’s 2010 album Girls Like Me for example, but has also just released an incredible free instrumental album, his debut solo project. Rather than take the beat tape route, he’s delicately crafted an [...]
Dephect recently dropped another free download from Simiah’s incredible instrumental hip hop album, Lost in Time. Furthering the chilled vibe of Boxing Rounds, a previously released free teaser, Simiah once again utilises the MPC to perfection with crisp drums and an incredible melody for a contemplative, smoke one out the window, kinda head nodder. Female [...]
After a bit of a slack period here at Broken Culture (final uni projects will do that to you I’m afraid!) we’ve got an inbox stacked ram jam full of beats to catch up on, and South London six person live Hip Hop crew Granville Sessions latest video is one of the gems. Real, home [...]
As a free graff magazine in some shape or form for around ten years now, Wordplay’s recently enjoyed increased success after broadening it’s horizons to cover Uk Hip Hop, making it an incredible free product that provides for a variety of heads. As well as later being published online, it’s an A4 format glossy magazine [...]
I saw Skuff, the stalwart Cambridge MC of Delegates of Culture, post a link to this tune on Facebook, and instantly loved it. From those orchestral strings to the laid back intro and the first verse that flows like water, it personifies UK Hip Hop for me. It’s a positive message with zero fakery and [...]
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